The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-13 00:00:00

.0. 4,4 j rg , 474 THE CREDIT MO BILIER COMPANY OF LONDON (Limited invite Tenders for the purchase of Mortgage Bonds of £5O each to the extent of £20,000, charged upon leasehold property of 1 rge value, and bearing interest at ten per cent. per annum, payable hal: 4 -year y, (,n presenta tion of coupons (which are attached to ttte Bonds) at the Agra and Hasterman's Bank. The prin:lipal of the Bonds redeemable in three years. F,,rrns of application may be obtainekl at ihe Uompany's Offices, 51, Threadneedle•street, London (entrance, Hercules passage . ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden. There will in this week be five opera nights, viz.. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and t,aturday. Extra Night. Mdlle. Adclinz Patti, Madame Didiee ; Faure, Signor Graziani, and tignor MAI io. THIS EVENING (Monday), June 13, will be performed Gounod's Opera, FAUST E MARGIIERITA. Mar.herita, Adelina Patti, being her second appearance in that chuacttr in England; Siebe , Madame Didiee ; Mdlle. Anese ; Mefisto ee, M. Faure ; Vale tino, Sig.nor Gr z!ani ; Wagner, tig - nor Taglialice; and Faust, Signor Mario. _ . Conductor, Mr. Costa. Commence at hat past Eight. - - ?it tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre e-tals, 103. ed., 75., and 53. ; Emphitheatre.".2s. 6d. Boxes, stAls, and tickets may be had at th,, box-offic under the portico of the tnealre, which is apen from teu to five, and at the principal musicsellers' and Librarians'. THEATRE ROYAL iIA YM ARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING. THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Mr. Howe and Miss L. Angel. After which, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, Weathersby, &c. ; Mesthines Snowden, Nelly Moore, Fitzwilliam. Followed by (for the tir t time) LORD DUNDREARY MARRIED AND DONE FOR. To conc:ude with AN UNLUCKY MORTAL. Mr. Wm. Farren and Miss M. Harris. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. Mr. FECHTER will perform HAMLE THIS EVENING (MONDAY). Claudius, Mr. Emery; Polonius, Mr. John Brougham; Ghost, Mr. G. Jordan ; lLaertes, Mr. C. Vanden htlf ; atic, Mr. J. G. Shore ; First Gravedigger, Mr. H. Widdicomb ; Osric, Mr. P'. Charles ; Messrs. NV M'lntyre, F. Morton, Raymond, 31orelartel, liffoid, Edmonds, Wall bank, Collett; Ophelia , Miss Hate Terry; Actress, Miss M lieu' ade ; and Gertrul e, Miss Elsworthy, The Scenery painted by Mr. W. Telbin. Notice.—The doors open at half-past 7, and Hamlet com taences at 8. Box Office open daily from Eleven o'clock till Five. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING will be performed a new and original Drama, by If. Slous, Esq., entitled LIGHT AND SHADOW. Mr. D. Murray, D. Fisher, W. Ray, J. Nelson, &C.; Mims Stafford and kiss Caroline Carson. Alter which, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Louis and Fabien del Franchi, Mr. Vining ; Chateau Renaud, Mr. Walter Lacy. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL-• Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART : Robert Landry (his original character). Mr. Benjamin Webster, supported by Messrs. A. titling, .J. L. Toole, T. Stuart, Vaul Bedford, B llington ; Miss 'Vvoolgar (Mrs. Alfred Mellon), Miss Kelly, &c. To conclude with THE AREA BELLE : 3lessrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, K. Romer, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. ' AI, ST, JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER , . Crowded with rank and fashion.— The highly successful new Comedy, by Dion Boueicault ,Esq., every Evening. Be• engagement of those ce ebra - ced and popular artistes, Mr. an Mrs. Charles Mathews. • ------ --- Amongst the artists engaged will be found the popular names of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr..T. L. Toole, Mr..'. Clarke, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. F. itobinson, Mr. Ashley ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Miss Herbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss H. Simms, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss E'anny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, /also 'Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling. EVERY EVENING, at 7, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING - . Miss Herbert. - - - At a quarter before S, an entirely new and oriczinal Comedy, in 5 acts, by Dion Boucicault, entitled THE FOX CHACE. Characters by Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Frank Matthews, 31r. J. Clarke, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Asir ey, Mr. W. Cbamner laine ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, and Miss Henrietta Simms (her first appearance here). At IC, by particular desire, COC,L AS A CUCUMBIER. Mr. Charles Mathews. • To conclude with SHAKE HANDS : Mr. J. Clarke; Miss Fanny Josephs. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, THE SILENT SYSTEM. Followed by THE MAID OF HONOUR. Miss Ada Swanborough. After which, MAZOURKA. Messrs. Honey, James, Fenton, Turner, &c. ; Misses Marie Wilton, Simpson, &c. To conclude with TIMOTHY TO THE RESCUE. Mr. T. Thorne. Commence at '. THE ASCOT.—PACE GLASSES (the best), at CALLAGHAN'S, 23A, New Bond-street, W., corner of Conduit-street. N.B.—tole agent to Voigtlander, Vienna. 111116 IRIS BONNE I'S for JUNE.—M , sqrs. JAY'S Manazer has If s day returned from Paris with an ls,ortment of th most eleg - Aat and fatal" onable bummer Bonnets, selected from the magasins of the first houses in that city. 7• JAY'S, The I ondon General Mourning Warehouse, 217, 219, and 2:51, Regent-street. June 1, 1801. ivOVEL STYLE in FRENCH BONNETS..— French fash'on has produced Bonnets for this montli of a light go .samer texture. which ace immodate t he present style of wearing amt hisplayii,g the lady's h ir. They are of the most exquisite variety, and, though still adhering - to the favourite colours of black white, and neutral, are entirely remodelled in shape, size, and substance. Spe tally imported from Paris for JAY'S, The London General Mourning Warehouse, 247, Z 49, and 251, Regent-street. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COAL?. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 24s. per ton. Double.. 204. per ton. Top 235. „ Nut 5........ Ss. „ Deep 2ls. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. TIFIE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," 111_ Containing the Latest SPORTING IN TELLIGENZE, an be had Every Evening of G. R. GIANIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, June 13, 1864. `+_. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock 62 Barometer-29.77. WIND— N•B• ; moderate breen, and cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. ruts DAY. — Monaing,' 7h. 52m,—Afternoon, Bh. 22m. rO.kORMLOW. - MOTiling, Bh. 53 m.—Afternoon, 9h. 28m. LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1864. For once, the Civil List Pensions for the year are in the highest degree satisfactory ! 'That the fact should be so, is to us, we will confess it, a very agree able surprise. We have so often had occasion to reprehend in these columns the absurdity marking the distributian of the annual addition to the Civil List of £1,200 in the shape of fresh Pensions Here, however, for once, we have no objection what. ever to raise. The names of the recipents have been exceedingly well selected—just the very naraes,to our thinking, that ought to have been selected. The little annual catalogue is—even with Lord PAL. 11 ERSTON still Prime Minister of England—not made ridieulons by including the name of another "Poet CLOSE." Oae or two of the names, here, are entirely lieW to us, we will acknowledge it. Bat —with each of these unknown names (unknown, that is to sap, to ourselves) a good reaeon enough is given for the award it is caupled "Mrs. AUSTIN £6O, in consideration of the services of her late husband, a civil engineer, who died whilst engaged in th e public service, and with. As.—' who had devoted himself ►o the sanitary improve- =out of poor dwoliing2." Or, ag a i n , as " Mrs. LEAF £5O, as the vii low of Mr. d. LEAF, who, tbo-agh of humble on ic, Wzr,s a cottribator of articles of greet merit to various journals." N ay, there is :fat another name on the list that we would particularise in like manner—to wit, "Rev. C. B. GIBSON £lOO, as author of many literary works and to the high testimony borne as to their value." Here, again, •however, it is we who may be at fault : and for that matter the whole of the rest of the list is so thoroughly good that we have not a mo ment's doubt of tt that the selection last men tionedis in a very signal manner judicious. Of course the largest recipient of a pension on this list, the one leading it off, in fact, is, as usual, the widow of a military officer. And although it does still appear to us rather au incongruity to find the name of a military officer's widow entered upon the Civil List, instead of the moneys so awarded being restricted exclusively to civilians, or the:relicts or bereaved relations of civilians—the case here for once is so entirely exceptional that any objec tion of ours upon that score is upon the instant hushed. " Lady INGLIS " so runs the entry, here "£5OO as an acknowledgment of the brilliant ser vices of the late Sir J. INGLIs, during the Indian mutiny, especially the gallant defence of the resi dence at Lucknow—services to which may partly be attributed his early death." Who will begrudge an award such as that ? Not one soul within the Three Kingdoms. Taen, as to the rest of the names—the Names now entered, for the first time, upon the Civil List in 1864—everyone of them will be recognised as hav ing been admirably well chosen ! First and fore most on this goodly list there is the famous popular Poetess—par excellence, and in a very especial man• ner, the "Poetess of the People"—ELlzA CooK. It is significant of the character of her reputation that even in the Civil List the entry runs simply thus—ELIZA COOK, not as afterwards with the authoress of " John Halifax," Miss DINAH MULOCH, not as intermediately with the widow of the dramatist of "The Love Chase," Mrs. SHERIDAN KNOWLES. But, with ELIZA COOK, it is otherwise— a sense of the fitness of thiegs constraining even the matter-of•fact officials at the Treasury to enter in its simple integrity, 'without any common-place prefix whatever, the name of the poetess of "I he Old Arm Chair," and of so many other exquisite Songs, Ballads, Lyrics, and what not, a name beloved during so many years past, far and wide, among our Eng!ish city homes and country homesteads. Our satisfaction with the entry, here, is marred alone by the words that close it: " ELIZA COOK £lOO, in consideration of her literary labours, both in poetry and prose, and her failing health." Otherwise than for those closing words of the entry, words that will be a pang to the unnumbered admirers of the People's Poetess, this announcement is surely in one word simply delightful. That the widow of SHERI DAN KNOWLES, and that Miss DINAH MULOCH, the novelist, have received each a pension, has already been here but just now intimated—the award to the latter of the twu being £6O per annum, to the former £lOO. Another pension of £6O a year has been awarded to a charming Irish poet, Mr. WILLIAM ALLINGHAM : and a pittance of £33 per annum is set apart, at the fag-end of the list, towards the maintenance of a sister of poor HUGH MILLER. Excellent though the present year's addition to the Civil List is, it is still so far unsatisfactory that the suns annually placed at the disposal of the Prime Minister seems to us, as we have so often before protested, wiaolely inadequate for the -re quirements pressing upon that high official in the yearly distribution of these pensions. Who could not add to the list the name of some well known intellectual labourer, whose honourabl e career, whose signal good services in the interests of his fellow-men, are alike passed by, year after year, sub silentio. One there is to our own certain knowledge whose name should be there upon that catalogue of men whom the country delights thus to honour with this substantial attestation of its sympathy and of its cordial recognition of noble services done to the com munity at large. The instance, here, is that of a man of distinguished ability, of the most sterling in tegrity, consistently devoted to the furtherance of the popular cause, one who has not simply grown grey in the service of the people at large, but who has exhausted all his energies in forwarding those interests to the neglect of his own, and who now, from the collapie of his individual fortunes, can at least look back to the devotion of a life to principles, his advancement of which seems to be entirely forgotten by all but his personal intimates, is most certainly altogether overlooked by those who are in power. Yet in the particular case we are here alluding to—the name of this champion of popular interests was constantly before the public for thirty years, and, beyond that, was directly and conspicuously associated with those who in 1832, carried the Reform Bill, and who, in 1846, secured the triumph of the Free Trade prin ciples. Some nations seem to go out of favour all at once, first nne.thing occurs anal apropos and then another, until its prestige is almost gone, and it can boast of only very barren laurels, Prussia is now emulat ing this very desirable position, and all the accounts that reach us concerning that nation seem but to confirm the prejudices already entertained against her, and to ratify the suspicions that have been from time to time engendered as to her good faith or good intentions. By this time the civilised world can share but one opinion as to the down right barbarity and extreme injustice of the Berlin policy in Dunmark. The details that bring us the minute particulars only confirm the ideas that have been entertained from the frequent outlines of hasty communication, as if this disgraceful under taking against the rights of a free State, and these unworthy attacks on the interests of a brave people, were not sufficient of themselves to overwhelm the nation in sheme and reproach. There are other rumours afloat as to the evil purposes and cruel in terference of the Prussians in other directions than the shores of the Baltic. The state of Prussian- Poland is very disastrous, and the latest accounts relate most distressing events as occurring in that locality. The arrests are very numerous, and so frequent, indeed, tha! it seems more difficult to find o ut who is seized th an t o di scover w h o i s not ! It would seem as if the Prussians were resolved to onido the Russians in the excess of tyranny, and the extreme of ar bitrary rule. The newly made commissaries of police are most active in their exertions, and contrive to get pl enty to d o i n t h e i r hard and harsh dep art ment. Their z e al ou t ru ns their judgments, and with a n active ambition, worthy of a better cause, they cont r i ve to deal terror in the land that is unfortunate enough to come under their jurisdiction. The manner ih which the business is carried on is perfectly disgusting, an d excites the indignation and irritation of hone s t minds. The description of their acts is a sort of revival of the worst features of that exterminating spirit and reckless procedure which have darkened the annals of history. The middle ages can really produce nothing to outdo the atrocity of these cruel acts, and the unne cessary violence displayed by the functionaries who oppress and decimate the ranks of a brave and una fortunate people. The rules and regulations are so ingeniously laid down and adroitly inserted that it is quite impassible to outwit them, and, indeed, it is very evident that the one en?, aim, and object is to compass the victims in the snares and entrap them to the pitfalls so insidiously prepared for them. The laws of Prussia are set at nought in order that the de a dl y an d d estruct i ve wor k may b e d one . N o one of any thought or consideration can see any differenc e in ordering a person to be killed outright and imposing tasks upon him that his strength can not perform, and for which his previous sufferings hale rendered him unfit. To condemn those who haze been wounded to the labours cf ouu7:cts is simply brutal, and those who give the order and in. sist on its being carried out may parade themselves in their grandeur and boast of their achievements, but they are not worthy of the name of men. There is something so utterly repulsive to the English character in such a system, and, indeed, so repug nant to the feelings of all refined States, that one is , mute with astonishment to hear of the barbarisms daily inflicted by a nation that bossts of its advance in intelligence and march in progress. The poet has emphatically declared that he counts the grey barbarian younger than the Christian child, and, according to this calculation, tyrants are infants in the community of civilisation, if not un worthy to be ranked as among them at all. The refinement of torture is the last device of the savage and the delight of the barbarian, but never should it find a place in the category of the qualities that influence and actuate an ad vanced and enlightened nation. To order a suspected character to be shot might be called unwarrantable, but to condemn him to a protracted death under the semblance of the law is a base act, and whether suggested by the proudest or sanctioned by the highest in the realm, is alike a crime and an outrage in the sight of GOD and man. No excuse can palliate such a system, and its very mention must exercise a deleterious effect on the minds of our quasi supporters and adherents. One unfortunate youth suffered so greatly that he is now in a dangerous state in -an hospital. The course pursued in all these cases is diametrically opposed to the fundamental principles of justice, and indeed not in conformity with the law of Prus sia, which only allows of such severe punishments being inflicted after a regular trial has taken place and a verdict been obtained. More than a thousand Poles are imprisoned under the Prussian Govern ment. This of itself speaks volumes as to the policy that obtains at Berlin, and forcibly declares to the world what are the tenets and observances held sacred by such statesmen, who can presume to vouch for the upright intentions and kind feeling of a set of men who can tolerate for a moment the perpetration of such atrocities as are inflicted on unoffending men, and even occasionally deserving individuals. One class of the bands arraigned be fore this tribunal is given up to the Russians to ill treat as they please, and very likely to torture to death in the end. No nation has a right to do such dastardly things, and unstable will be the prospe rity that springs from their commission. It is not thus that great mains attain their power, or a gallant people wins its pre eminence. True bravery cannot exist with cruelty. The knights of old were not more famous for their skill against the foe than for their zeal to aid the oppressed, and their good will in rendering assistance to those in trouble. :lad any of these chivalrous heroes, without fear and without reproach, been called upon to perform the part of the Prussian officers in Posen, they would have replied in the words used by a French noble man, when commanded to join in some unworthy undertaking, " Among the portraits of my ancestors I see soldiers, but not assassins." It is truly de plorable to dwell upon these harrowing details, and not only must the reader lament the physical suf ferings of one side, bat he must also mourn over the moral decadence of the other. Cruelty is the worst vice that can degrade human nature ; it is the crime most inimical to the laws of Christian charity, and the inculcations of Divine commands. It is degrading to the disposition of all who prac• Liao it, and the most insuperable barrier against elevation of mind and excellence of heart. It speaks ill for the present generation that so many accounts should be constantly met with that bring before ns the horrid and fearful pictures of wanton cruelty and reckless tyranny. Many will deplore the sad 1 casualties of the unhappy Poles, but the greatest losers in the end will be the races who oppress and injure them. Such a systematic course of selfishness and barbarity will retard the progress of civilisation. It is a poor am ambition that will rest satisfied with the commission of acts that appertain to long past days of darkness, and belong to obsolete times of misrule. It is a suicidal course to pursue, and a fatal policy to adopt, both as regards home and abroad, and a people abrogates its privilege and forfeits its posi tion, when it takes this retrograde course, instead of standing forth as the beacon of progress and the herald of mercy and of peace. It is singular to notice how the inconsistency so common in individuals may be often traced in the direction of public affairs. As we see men in private life often throwing away favourable openings to pursue some object which they are very unlikely to reach, or which when reached may be very un profitable, so we may often observe some grand Government scheme or national undertaking carried out in simple defiance of the experience of the past, and with a total disregard of the possibilities of the future. The perversity or shortsightedness which forbids us to recognise the advantages really within our grasp, while we exhaust ourselves in fruitless pursuit of those that are unattainable, is very oftee forcibly exemplified in the administration of our naval affairs. Unfortunately, too, it does not con fine itself to mismanaging our ships and our sailors. but extends to the semi-amphibious establishments of harbours, ports, and naval stations. It would seem almost incredible to a stranger that we are in actual possession of a harbour of such magnificent natural resources, that the largest and heeviest vessel can enter or quit it at any state of the tide, while whole fleets may ride in safety within its basin, and several miles of anchorage up the river increase its capabilities to an extent equalled by very few harbours, natural or artificial; and that we have treated it with such neglect that its present state is said to be absolutely dangerous. Yet this is by no means an exaggerated description of the condition of affairs at Cork. The harbour is admitted by all who have the slightest acquaintance with the subject to possess magnificent natural advantages, but although the question of our dock accommodation is so serious and so pressing, and although the merits of the fact are fully recognised, from year to year the proposed improvements are delayed and delayed until we are told on good authority that in this splendid harbour rot the smallest ship can be repaired, nor is there accommo dation sufficient to allow of any injury to machinery, &e., being remedied. A very striking instance of the spendthrift results of the " penny wise and pound foolish" system is afforded in the case of the Sidon. This vessel was to proceed to the Cape with 800 troops who were urgently needed there, and was coming to Cork to embark them, when, having met with some injury to her machinery near the mouth of the harbour, she was compelled to return to Plymouth, the nearest harbour, to be repaired, and thereby a loss of four weeks was occasioned, besides other inconveniences. We are not surprised that Mr. MAGIIIRE, who was the principal spokes man of the large and influential deputation who waitcd on Lord P ALMERSTON a few days since, on this very subject, should have mentioned the case of the Sidon more particularly. The Prime Minister might learn from that one instance how often large schemes may be frustrated and principles of foreign policy disarranged by the lack of so necessary an assistance as a Hare hour cf Refuge. Mr. MAGuntE also reminded the noblo lord that sixteen or eighteen boars ego the Government of the day, of which Earl RUSSELL was head and Lord PALMERSTON a prominent member, distinctly promised that the required im provements should be carried out in Cork Harbour. The ardent partisans of this extension ought, per haps, to feel grateful if they succeed in inducing the fulfilment of an offical promise within twenty years of its being made, but the veteran Premier readily acknowledged the claims of the deputation upon him. He said that he had himself been so strongly impressed with the advantages of the har bour that he Lad intended, when Sir CHARLES WOOD was at the Admiralty, to have taken steps in the matter. For some unexplained reason the execution of this laudable intention was postponed, and year after year has gone by, with all these advantages which Nature has dealt out with so liberal a hand to Cork thrown to the winds, while we are lavishing hundreds of thousands in vain attempts e put in to p t a b l e . m in places which con scarcely b ison 'W . e are in great want, rival en Lord PALMERSTON admits, of dock accom modation, and where on the western coast can we find a better or more advantageous spot than a harbour whose depth of water is so great that a vessel of any size, armament, or tonnage, may enter it at any moment, and may quit it at any tide to find herself safely launched on the broad bosom of the Atlantic ? It is no wonder that the sister kingdom should feel some irritation at seeing the capacities of so noble a port completely undeveloped ; but the feelings of jealousy and mistrust which once prevailed between the two nations are not now sufficiently forcible to serve as a valid excuse for inaction. For purposes of military defence it is well adapted, while the railway and the telegraph answer every objection founded on the assumption of foreign war. The Commissioners on Fortifications, who reported three years ago, declared that Cork Harbour was possessed of great capabilities as a naval port, and would occupy an important naval strategical posi tion for the defence of our western coast in time of war. They further say, " Cork harbour offers strong natural features for defence against an attack by sea, and the naval establishments at Haulbowline, which, though limited, afford ample means of refitting, coaling, and provisioning the ships of the fleet, are so situated as to be secure from bombardment by sea until the enemy has actual pos session of the anchorage. A nation that deals so largely in ironclads, and is so anxious to watch the rival merits of its field-pieces, should not forget this re commendation. Altogether the case does not admit of an answer or an evasion, and Lord PALMERSTON, with his usual happy tack, readily promised to du alt that was necessary at some future period, and meanwhile he advised those well informed on the matter to present themselves before the Parliamen tary committee now sitting on dockyards. We trust the matter will not be again allowed to drop out of sight, since the establishment of a regular naval station and dockyard between Milford Haven and Plymouth would be of immense advantage to the shipping on our western coast, and surely no better or more appropriate spot could be Lund than that which nature Las herself specially fitted for the purpose. SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 13, 1864. ADELPHI THEATRE, Miss Bateman terminated her engagement at the Adtlphi, on Saturday, with all that enthusiasm which she has maintained iu London for upwards of eight months. Called before the curtain at the conclusion of " Leab," and led forward by Mr. Ben jamin Webster, she was greeted with a shower of bouquets so profuse that she did not know what to do with her floral treasures, and could only cart', them from the stage with the assistance of the courteous manager. Althougd the Adelphi season still continues, and is likely to continue for months to come, the tem porary retirement of the young American actress, who so suddenly and so permanently became an idol of the public, furnished an occasion fitted for speech, and the following, short, but much to the purpose, was accordingly delivered by Mr. Web ster, when the fair Western star had set behind the curtain " Ladies and Gentlemen,—l am very proud to witness the ovation you have just paid to this talented young lady, and I think I may venture to say jastly paid to her. To produce a sueessful piece is a pleasing event in any manager's career, and these boards have witnessed many extra ordinary successes, but to produce a great artist is a rare event in eny theatre, for they are like angels' visits, few and far between, especially one so gifted mentally and physically as Miss Bateman. During 211 nights Miss Bateman has in the one character of Leah excited the interest of the public, and their judgment is seldom in the wrong. She has proved that genuine talent, genuine art, will ever have its attractions even with the highest in the realm. I am happy to inform you that Miss Bateman will reappear here on the 2d of January next, to achieve, I trust, in other characters fresh triumphs, and until then she most gratefully, cordially, and re spectfully bids you farewell." The latter part of the speech was received with acclamations, Possibly, many of the audi nee feared that the theatrical favourite of the last eight months had taken leave of them for ever. At all e%ents, the official prediction that she would reap pear after Caristmbs, and perform new parts, was received with tumultuous acclamation. PRESENTATION TO CAPTAIN JAY.—Captain Jay and the members of his troop of Horse Artillery, had the honour of entertaining at a banquet at the Armoury House, on the 10th ult., the Lieutenant Colonel of the H.A.C., Lord Colville, and a distinguished party, among whom were the Earl of Mount Charles, the Marquis of Ormonde, Admiral Stanley, Colonels Douglas and Palmer, and other distinluishod military personages. Seventy gentlemen sat down to a most sumptuous dinner. The distinction which this troop has obtained was made the subject of warm eulogy in a very able speech on military matters, delivered during the evening by Lord Mount Charles, and which his lordship remarked was manly due to the judicious command and discipline which had been observed under Captain Jay. In the course of the evening the members of the troop presented, as a mark of their re gard to their captain, a massive silver bowl, which Wars the following inscription:—" To Captain W. C. Jay, who raised and held the first commission in the troop of horse artillery attached to the Hon, Artillery, this Cup is pre sented by the gentlemen under his command, in token of their personal regard, and in acknowledgment of his great exertions on behalf of the troop. Bth June, 1864." mouth, Monday, squally. Fires were THE CHANNEL SQUADRON.- -- PIY 10 a.m.—Wind, southerly ; lighted in the furnaces of the Channel Squadron at 7 o'clock this morning. The scrsw steamship Prince Consort, 35, Captain George 0. Willes, C. 8., ho ve short at 9, and at half-past left the Sound by the W estern Channel . The command aPnrdi,nicoel,lo4wle,d.CapTthaienita g s hip Edgar, 71, Captain G. B. Wainwright, second in P. Hornby, is now clearing the western end of the Break water, and all is ready for the iatnaediate departure of the Warrior, 40, Captain Hon. Arthur A . Cochrane, C. 8 ., and the Defence, 16, Captain Augu . tus Philimore. A HORRIBLE RUMOUR. -Th. almost incredible statement is made, says the _London _Review, that no fewer than 40,C00 Irishwomen are at this moment wandering outcasts in New York alone, the mothers, sisters, and daughte , s of men who have been plied wan drink nd carried off to fill up the broken ranks of the Federal army. REMINISCENCES OF THE OPERA. By Benjamin Lumley,2oyears Director of lier Majesty's Theatre. —Messrs. Hurst and Blackett have just issued Mr Lumley's long-expected "Reminiscences" in one handsome volume. It will be eagerly perused in all lite rar y , mu s ical , and fashionable circles. The work comprises in numerable in teresting anecdotes and recollections in reference to almost all the principal musical artistes and composers of our time, among whom . will be found Pasta, Catalani, Malibran, Grisi, Sontag, Jenny Lind, Alboui, Cruvelli, Persiani, Tietjens, Branibilla, Castellan, Catherine Hayes, Wag ner, Piccolontini, and Racbel ; Teglioni, Fanny Ellslor, Cerito, Dumilatre, Lucile, Gr,shn, Ros tti, 3r:. ; Rubini, atio, Frarebini. Gartioni, Nittriani, Calzoiari, Lablachejambutini, noncom, Fornasari, Coletti, Belletti, and Staudigl ; Rossini, Mendelssohn, Neyerbeer, Donizetti, Verdi, li%levy, Benedict, Balfe, 540. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, JUNE 12, 11 20 p.m. A number of notables of Copenhagen have pro. posed the following address to the King : " An intimate constitutional union of Schleswig with the kingdom is the essential condition for the independence of Denmark, and the development of her nationality. " A personal union of Schleswig•Holstein with the kingdom tvould entail the loss of Schleswig and the fall of Denmark. It is, therefore, impossible that the Government should consent to such a solu- Lion. .‘ A continued prolongation of the armistice is impossible, unless the basis of a satisfactory peace be proposed." THE BOMBAY MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, JUNE 11. The Ellora, with the Marseilles portion of the above mail, left here at 5 p.m. on the 9th inst. The Baroda, with the heavy portion of the same mail, left at 2 p.m. this day. She may be expected at Southampton about the 23d inst. FRANCE. BOURSE, June 11.—The market continues dull, but without any material variation in prices, Threes being now at 67f. Mohilier has receded to 1,127 f. 50c. Railway Market heavy. The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents .. 93 50 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 Credit Mobilier 1115 Do. end month 1117 50 Bank Shares 3400 Credit Foncier 1248 60 Roman, RAW Italian Loan 7O 80 Do. end month 7O 25 Ditto Threes 42 50 New Mexican Russian Austrian Spanieh Threes Home Debt Deferred AYB. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern ' Lyons and Mediterranean New ditto Southern ........ Western .. Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lowbard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona 867 50 ~ 867 50 990 - .. 987 50 867 50 .. 865 - 652 50 643 75 501 25 .. - - 463 75 .. 463 75 368 75 .. 367 50 402 50 .. 405 - 632 50 .. 635 - 440 - .. 442 60 607 50 .. 570 - CHINA. We take the following summary of news from the China Overland Mail of the 29th of April : "We reported in our last issue that Colonel Gor don's forces had met with a reverse, owing no doubt to the Colonel not bring able to be present in the field in consequence of a wound received at Kintang. We have now to state that Col. Gordon his recovered from his wound, and is again in the field. He has been successful as usual. On the 11th he attacked the rebels at a place called Waisoo, where they were strongly intrenched, and some what num:rolls. " Tne reports which have reached us state that the Taeptngs were rather severely cut up, the line of retreat being literally strewed with dead. Previous to the action the Taepings mustered over 15,000 strong, while the Imperialists were not more than 10,000. These rebels having been dispersed and their return to garrison prevented, the Impe rialist troops next made a move upon Chang-chow too, which city they are now besieging. The seven officers whom we reported as missing were found dead, and their bodies have been duly interred. "To all appearance the crushing of the Teeping rebellion is simply a work of time, and it has been affirmed that four months more will put an end to it. " Our dates from Pekin are to the 21st ult., when everything was moving quietly in the capital. "From the Northern Ports we have no intelli gence of importance. _ . - " With regard to Shanghai and the Yang-tsze river, there is, fortunately, not much to narrate, rowdyism and foreign ecoundreliem having btea rather quiet of late. " The ports on the coast farnish no intelligence, and everything is quiet at Manilla and Canton." WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Jane 12. The Ruyal Mail Company's steamship Seine, Captain Revett, with the above mails, has arrived. She brings 242 passengers, amongst whom is Senor &layer y Mazarredb, Special Commissioner to Peru, and Minister of H.C.M. to Bolivia. The Seine has on freight, gold bullion £137,362; gold coin, £6,250; silver bullion, £67,251 ; silver coin, £12.027 ; pearls, £B9O ; also the following cargo -162 serons cochineal, 14 serons indigo, 242 serons bark, 15 turtle, 9 packages hats, 162 bales indiarubber, 245 bags cocoa, 133 bales cotton, and 124 packages sundries. Dates by this mail are—Honduras, May 16; Colon, 21; Jamaica, 24; Demerara, 23 ; Tobago, 22;• Trinidad, 21 ; Ihrbadoes, 25; Grenada, 25 ; St. Vincent, 25; St. Lucia, 25 ; Martinique. 27 ; Antigua, 27 ; Montserrat, 28; 6:..Kitt's, 28 ; and St. Thomas, 29. H.B.M. ship Cameleon left Vancouver's IslKnd the latter p Art of April for the Mexican coast, ..nd thence for Panama, to relieve the Devastation. tier Majesty's ship Tribune, which left Panama on the 25th February, and sailed the whole passage, arrived at R-quimalt about the middle of April. Tne Sutlej was expected at Ebquimalt, after a cruise round the Polynesian Islands. The blockade of Acapulco Msxican coast con.. tinned. About 8,000 bales of cotton are said to be lying at Acapulco for shipment. the Salvador, from the Central American ports, arrived at Panama o❑ the Bth. Tne Congress at Costa Bioa opened its session on the Ist. In Hon duras General Alvarez had given in his adherence to the Government of Medina, and received fall amnesty for his attempted rebellion. The barque Ysaleo, eight months from England, arrived at La Union April 30. On the 26th she rendered assistance to the English barque Annie Powell, which had parted one chain and was drag ging towards the surf, and succeeded in towing her off. News from Buenaventura says the General Go vernment had acknowledged the existing Govern ment in the State of Antioquia. ANECDOTES OF THE haIPEROR NAPOLEON lII. With the future Emperor or France, when an exile in England, I had been well acquainted. • He had been a constant subscriber to Her Majesty's Theatre, was a frequent guest at my house, and had assisted at the afternoon fetes given by me at my residence, The Chancellor's, at Fulham, where he had entered heart and soul into the amusements of the hour. Frequenters of these champetres entertain ments may remember one occasion when Prince Louis Napoleon figured in the same quadrille with Taglioni, Cerito, and Carlotta Grisi, having the director of Her Majesty's Theatre vie-a-sis. The Prince and I frequently dined in company at Gore House, the residence of use late Countess of Bleasington, where all that was distinguished in literature and art was constantly assembled ; and it may be worth recording, in connection with the Prince's known firm reli ance on his destiny that at one of these dinners, when Count d'Orsay was expatiating on the evidences that had come before him of the popularity of the Prince (although, at that time, the law forbidding any member of the Bonaparte family to enter the country was still in force), the future Emperor sat silent with a significant smile upon his face, the meaning of which none could fail to interpret. On another occasion, when I was allu sing to the part played bl General Cavaignac in June, 1848, in firing upon the people after the emeute had been quelled, the Prince drily, but in an earnest manner, remarked, "That man is clearing the way for me."—LforeeVs Reminiscences of the Opera. CLOCZ WORK IN ENGLAND.—" As a sample of English clock work on a large scale, the works of this are probably the finest fini hed that have ever been seen in this country -no chronometer could be fitted with more perfect and carefully adjusted mechanism."—Times, June 11, 1862. J. W Benson having erected steam power and improved machinery for clock making at the manufactory, Ludgate -hill, will be glad to furnish to clergymen, architects, and com ittees estimates and specific tions of every description of hordlogical machine, especially cathedral ant public clocks, chiming tunes on any number of bells. A descriptive pamph et on church clocks post free for one stamp. Watch and cock maker by warrant of appointment to H.B.H. the Prince of Wales, and maker o, the great clock for the Exhibition, 1862. Manufactory, Lud gat,-.1-1411, Louden. Establishei [4l.aVf•ll LITERATURE, Playing at Mona:, Three Months in an English :Niortaster7. A Per, sonal Narrative. By Ch ar l es W a lk er . One. pp. 299. Murray and Co. The gravity with which this narrative is written throughout—very cleverly written by the way—is something excessively delightful. If not penned by Mr. Walker literally in nubibus, it certainly reads for all the world as though, while writing it, the author of the book had been held (say by Os force, not to say by very odd force, after the manner of our tables and chairs a few years ego) in a somewhat analogous position to Mationiet's coffin. Either— he bas gone too far ! Or—he has Lot gone far enough! His creed is seemingly neither the one thing nor the otl.er. His book is very much of the same uncc,rtain, indeterminate character. What we are here expected to sit down to and devour, is, in homely parlance, neither fish, nor flesh, nor yet even good red herring. A Catholic monk in com munion with the See of Rome, we can all of us per fectly well comprehend. But—a Protestant monk! The terms are irreconcileable. It is an incongruity of phrase, as jarring and discordant of its kind as Major Yelverton's answer to the priest who married him on that memorable morning to Miss Theresa Longworth over in Ireland—his answer to the in quiry of Father Mooney What religion he was of, whether Protestant or Catholic," I am a Protestant- Catholic !" It distracts one's ideas. It sets one's teeth on edge, like a discord in music or afalse quan tity in a latin recitation. One thing or the other, we would say, both to Mr. Walker, the author of this book, and to Mr. Lytle, the hero of it—the latter better known not only to the reader of it, but pre viously through the newspapers to the public at large as " Brother Ignatius." Here, in the book as its frontispiece, is the portrait of Brother Ignatius— in full costume as Brother Ignatius, And looking at this picture, it is quite manifest in every line of it that—unlike the real monks—Brother Ignatius was very carefully posed by the photographer. The effect being—not unnaturally—as is also the case in regard to the effect of the written narrative celebrating the history of Brother Ignatius—a replier " poser !" Looking at it—it fairly bewilders one. For here in this limning of a Protestant clergyman—a comely gentleman enough in himself evidently, but rather given to the fantastical in the way of mas queracVng—we behold the effigy not, of a Parson (so far as appearances go) but of a genuine Monk : an embroidered stole upon the table by his side, a crucifix near it clasped in his left hand, in the grasp of his right a breviary, drooping from his shoulders a cowl, suspended from his girdle a Rosary ! A Rosary, i swill be remembered, having so manydecades of the ave mania —and therefore imply ing on the part of the wearer of it, devotions "rather" out of the way for a Protestant clergyman! However, the fact evidently is, judging f ow all we have ever heard of Mr. Lyrae, alias Brother Ignatius, pre viously to the publication of Mr. Walker's book about bins and his doings, and now very much more fully from the work itself—this enthusiastic Curate of St. Peter's, Plymouth, near neighbour of Nios &lion, of the Protestant Conventual Establisnment in that place—this Rev. Mr. Lyne, otherwise Brother Ignatius, has been all along bent upon striking out for himself also a via media between Protestantism and Catholicism ! And he has struck it out in so eccentric a manner that we doubt not, by both alike, he will be regarded as not in the least bit in the world orthodox. The English of it all is, as our heading to these remarks intimates, that Brother Ignatius and his companions are doing all this while nothing but simply Playing at Monks. Reading the record of it all as here jotted down, very gravely by Mr. Charles Walker, it as if we were spirited away to a strange kind of a whimsical, Clerical Arcadia. Only it is an Arcadia —where the people eat suet dumplings, and dearly love a comfortable gossip over a cup of tea. ['root positive as to which latter particulars may be found here in the following naive entry :—" Sundays, I must confess, were not the mot pleasant days in Cicydon. We missed the active bustling work of the other days and the hours seemed iu consequence to drag somewhat. The time between the 'hours' was spent in reading—in the morning several chapters of the Old T: etament ; in the afternoon, any book we chose to select from our little stock. Vespers were said at half-past five, so we really had a quiet tea on Sundays; and as that meal was seaved in the parlour on all festivals, and conversation allowed, it was quite asocial meal." AS to the dumplings, now suet, now sweet, the former, it appears, are devoured by the brethren on Tues days, Thursdays, and Saturdays, the latter (" hard," according to Mr. Walker's authority for it, and therefore we fear extremely indigestible) onWedoess days and Fridays—the Sunday meal being rendered palatable by the substitution of a nice pudding for either the hard or the suet. Claydon is the scene of Brother Ignatius and Co.'s monastic observances. And there it is they are at it perpetually day and night with Lends, Prime,Terc, Sext,Nones, Vespers, and Complin. Here is the first taste of the mid night discipline by one of the unsophisticated fo lowers of Mr. Lyne, on originally coming to Clay don, acid there roused in the dead of night by the flare of a big wexcandle brought into the Novice's sleeping-room by one of the B tut hers • " The light, reflecting on his lice, over which the hood was drawn, and gave a peculiar look to his features, dis ordered as they were by an abrupt arousing from sleep; and only tialf awake myself, I anticipated some sudden cause of the particulars of which the good Brother had come to communicate to me; and inquited, I fear in a very unmonastic tone, what was the matter ? I soon learnt that this was a summons to Nocturns, or the night offic-, which begins at 2 a.m., and lasts till between 3 and 4. The brothers sleep in their habits, and he whose turn it is to awaken the others goes round from bed to bed saying, Benedicamus Domino (let us bless the Lord), and each bother, starting up, replies, Deo Gratias (thanks be to God). It was to this solemn greeting of the brother that I inadvertently replied in the manner I have mentioned. I was soon ready to accompany the brother, and in a few minutes a dozen strokes or so of the bell announced to such of the villagers as were awake that Nocturne were about to commence." Enough, however. Gravely though the book is written—it is quite impossible, we take it, that it should be read with a serious face either by C:itholic or by Protestant. The book is an eccentricity, es the career of the hero of it is t.O eccentricity. Both of them, probably, very will•iiltentioned—but stifle for all that, only to be looked at, from either side s from the right hand or trom the left, under an aspect intensely ridiculous. SIGNOR ARDITI'S MORNING CONCERT.—This talented and able artiste has announced his ann:tal grand morning concert for Friday, the 17th, at Her Majesty's Theatre, and :he programtua is quite worthy the cccasion. Each of the three parts into which the concert is divided contains the names of the most eminent musicians of the day both vocal and instrumental, and thus an array of talent is presented of an unusual description. The first part will consist of selections from Rossini's " Stabat Mater," the solo parts being sustained by Madlles. Titiens, Lem mans Sherrington, and Trebelli, and Signori Giuglini, Gardoni, Junca, and Mr Santley. The second will embrace selections from "Robert le Diable," "Faust," and "Don Giovanni," with a great variety of musical gems of every description, one of the most prominent being Madame Arabella Ga}ddard's pianaforte concerto in G Minor. Arditi's canto " La Garibaldina" is also to be performed, together with a new grand duo for Madame Goddard and Mr Car. rodus. The third and concluding part will be the third act of Falstaff, with an incidental ballet. The above is a very brief outline of the entertainment, but the fare announced of Signor Arditi's concert will be quite sufficient to ensure a brilliant end crowded audience. In order that the whole hourwhole of the performa nce ma y be satisfactoril y given, the for the commencement of the concert has been set for half. past one. DIVINE SERVICE IN COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS,—The Bishop of Oxford's bid, before the House of Lords, proposes to give power to the Bishop to license one or more of the masters (being in I tiest's orders) of any coltegiat school or college to perform Divine service, for the benefit of the FchAare in any suitable room or building in or neat the school, set apart for that purpose. Bat the license is not to include the offices of baptism, marriage, or burial. By "collegiate school or college" is to be understood a school incorporated by letters patent, or charter, or by Act of Parliament, for instruction in religious and useful learn. ing in accordance with the doctrines of the Church of England. FEMALE SCHOOL OF ART.—The worshipful Com- J any of Drapers has forwarded a donation of ,k,21 o the building fund of the Female School of Arts, Qu een ' s quare, and E. ACkl oyd, Dq., of the firm of Ackr. , yd anc Son, of Halifax and the City of London, has also sent X5O towards the same object. *my." c,E, Ortilbr I HER MAJESTY, WINDSOR CASTLE, Saturday; The Queen, accomponieci by her Royal Highness Princess Louise, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. The Prince and Princess of Leiniogen and the Princess Alberta of I, , ,:iningen took leave of her Majesty this morning, and left the Castle. Princess II(!lene, attended by Lady Caroline Bar rington, the Hoe. Harriet Phipps, and Lieut. Col. the Hon. 1). De Roe, returned to the Castle this morning at ten 'ninnies bhforc twelve. Princess Louis of Hesse, attended by Baroness Von Granny, 1)r Becker, and Lieut. General Sir Henry Beni lock, returned at two o'clock. SUNDAY. Her Majesty drove cut yesterday afternoon, ac.. companied by her Roynl Highness Princess Louis of Hesse, and attended by Lord Charles Fitzroy. Prince Louis of Hesse, attended by Captain Von Westerweller, arrived at the Castle last night from London. Prince Hermann of Soims, Prince Ysenburg Burdingen, and Count Erbach, accompanied his Royal Highness, _ _ _ His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by Nl9jor Cowell and Lieutenant Haig, arrived at the Castle shortly before one o'clock. The Queen, their Royal Highnesses Princess Louis of Hesse, Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice, the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended Divine ser vice this morning in the Private Chapel. Tho Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor officiated. The Prince and Princess of Wales, , The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Prince Alfred and Prince Louis of Hesse, and attended by Lieut.-Colonel Keppel, Major Cowell, and Lieut. Haig, went to Chatham on Saturday morning to witness the siege operations. The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive, ac companied by Princess Mary of Cambridge. The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by Prince Alfred and Prince Adolphus of Meeklen burg-Strelitz, went to the Italian Opera, Covent Garden, in the evening, attended by the Counttea of Morton and Lieut.-Colonel Keppel. The Prince and Princess of Walee, with Lady Morton and Lieut.-Colonel Keppel in Waiting, at tended Divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday morning. ne Communion Service was read by the Rev. the Subde,n and the Rev. R. C. Pbckcnan. The 11,v. the Subdean preached the sermon from St. Lutz:-, ch. x., v. 41, 42. Antnem, " I have set God alway before me."—.. Guldwin. Sung by Masters Collier and F. Bris towe, and by Messrs. R. Barnby, T. Foster, Montem Smith, and Lewis Thomas. Mr. Goss presided un the organ. The Archbishop of Armagh, the Bishop of Oxford, E trl St. Germains, Viscount Sydney, Marquis of B it tr, Marquis of Camden, the Etrl of Morey, E Lucan, tae Earl of Lotq, , ford, Viscount Hardinge, Lord Campbell, Lord Vivian, and Lord Llanover were present during the service. Death of Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest. A vacancy is occasioned in the representation of the Northern Division of the county of Durham by the death of Lord Ad.lphus Vane Tempest. His lordship expired on Saturday between twelve and one o'clock. The late lord was the second son of the late Marquis of Londonderry, by his second wife, Frances Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir Harry Vane Tempest. He was born 2d July, 182,5, and married in 1860 Lady Susan Pelham Clinton, the only daughter of the Duke of Newcastle, by whom he leaves an infant daughter. The deceased lord was educated at Eton, and having adopted the army as his future profession, he entered the Scots Fusiiier Guards as ensign in April, 1843, became lieutenant and captain in ay, 1849, and captain and lieu tenant-colonel in December, 1854. He served with hie regiment during the Eastern campaign, and received the medal and clasp for the siege and fall of Sebastopol. Soon after his return home from the East in August, 1859, he retired from the service, his parliamentary avocations in terfering with his military duties. In June. 1852, he came forward ea a candidate for the city of Durham, but was un successful. However, in the December following he was placed at the head of the poll, but in June was unseated on petition to the House of Commons, a conarnittee declaring him to have been not duly elected. A vacancy having arisen in 1854 in the representation of North Durham by his brother, Lord Seaham, becoming:a peer under the title of Earl Vane on the death of his father, the Mar quis of Londonderry, the late Lord Adolphus came for ward and was returned, owing no doubt to the powerful family influence in the county. He has held the seat uninterruptedly ever since. Lord Adolphus supported the Earl of Derby's Government, having come forward on Conservative principles, and voted in favour of that states man's Reform Bill. He occasionally, like many other members of the House of Commons, supported Lord Pal merston's Government,. and on the memorable divison on the Chinese war recorded his vote in favour of the Go. ment. By his death the families of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, the Earl and Countess of Portarlington, &a. 7 are placed in mourning. HER MAJESTY'S STATE BALL.—We are autho• rised to state that her Majesty's ball, announced to take place on the 27th instant, has been postponed till the 29,1 i Ins alit. . . •---- Towards the latter end of next month her Majesty will to to Osborne, and on the Ist of September the Queen will ag in visit Balmoral. —Court Journal. I'b tr it9yal 1-I:gunesses the Pritled and Princess of Wales have been piaasrd to signify their inten tion to honour the grand Caledonian fancy dress ball by their presence this evening at Wi:lis' Rooms, King-street, St. James's. Their Royal Highnesses th e Duke of Cam bridge, the ,:uclaess of Cambridge, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-7itrelitz, and Princess Mary of Cambridge have been invited by the ladies patronesses, who number 70 ladies connected with the noble and ancient families of Scotland. The ball this year is under the distinguished and immediate patronage of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. His Royal Highness tha Doke of Cambridge, as Field-Marshal Commanding in Chief, and several members of the staff at headquarters, leave town this morning to attend the "public day" at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, Their Royal Ilighfiesses the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz honoured the Duchess (Emily) of Beaufort with their company at dinner on Saturday evening at the duchess's house in Hill-street. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Lord and Lady Lon desborough, and a select party had the honour to meet their royal highnesses. THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF MEXICO,.—. Their Imperial Mejesties the Emperor and Empress of Mexico arrived at Jamaica on the 20th in the Austrian war steamer Novara, escorted by the French steamer Themis. Her Majesty's steamer Barraceuta conveyed the illustrious personages up the harbour. ACer paying a visit to Major- General Ashmore and to his Excellency the Lieutenant- Governcr, the imperial party returned to the wharf, where they took boat for the Barracouta, and were conveyed by that vessel back to Port Royal. The party consisted of the Eoperor and Empress—Madame la Comotesse Echo, Grand Maitresse of the Impeiatrice—Madame la Cometesse Colo nich, Dane d'honneur--and M. I. Vela squez de Leon, Mexican Minister of State. Their Imperial Majesties left Port Royal for Vera Cruz oil the 22d. Prince Paul Eiterhazy returned to town on Friday night from a short visit to Paris. We are authorised to contradict the announce ment made by a contemporary that a "matrimonial alliance,is arranged to take place between Prince Paul Esterhazy and Lady Diana Beauclerk, daughter cf the Duchess of St. Albans." M. Joaquim de la Quintana and Madame de la Quintana and family have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn.street, from Spain. The Count Rlchard de Fracomtal and M. de Blezzy have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn• street, from Paris. General Comte and Comtesse Schenateine and family have left the Brunswick Motel, Jermyn-street, for the Isle of Wight. Vicouut and Viscountess C 1 e Veeci and Hon. Nliss Vcsey are expected to leave town. , early in the present week for Scotland, to oe present at the marriage or Lord Elphinstone and Lady Constance Murray.. marriage of Lord Elpr4ir.stone and Lady Constance Murray, daughter of the Countess of Dunmore, , nd sister of the present peer, is sppoini.d to take place ou [law sday next at Dunmore Park, near Falkirk. Lord and Lady Moo tenigie have left the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood, fur Bournemouth. Lord F. G. II .1i) baron h arrived at the Hotel \lirabeau, Paris, c n his return from Vichy. L B u o d v y er .E . :hula Talbot and childr en have left tout tor